Who was born on December 5?
– 1782 – Martin Van Buren (1862) – 8th President of the United States (1837–1841), American politician and statesman.
– 1803 – Fedor Tyutchev (1873) – Russian poet, diplomat, conservative publicist.
– 1820 – Afanasy Fet (1892) – Russian poet, translator, memoirist.
– 1861 – Armando Diaz (1928) – Italian military leader, Marshal of Italy.
– 1861 – Konstantin Korovin (1939) – Russian artist and theater artist.
– 1890 – Fritz Lang (1976) – German film director.
– 1896 – Carl Ferdinand Cori (1987) – American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1947).
– 1901 – Werner Heisenberg (1976) – German physicist, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, Nobel Prize laureate (1932).
– 1901 – Walt Disney (1966) – American animated film director, producer, artist.
– 1903 – Cecil Frank Powell (1969) – English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1950).
– 1910 – Soyib Khojayev (1982) – theater and film actor, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan.
– 1916 – Bashorat Mirboboyeva (2010) – the first Uzbek female parachutist and the first Uzbek female locomotive driver.
– 1922 – Nasir Ahmedov – anatomist, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1990).
– 1928 – Musayev Jora (2014) – geneticist, Honored Scientist of Uzbekistan (1980).
– 1940 – Mahkamov Makhmudov – writer, publicist, translator.
– 1945 – Nina Ruslanova (2021) – Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People’s Artist of Russia.
– 1962 – Yuldoshev Nigmatilla – Prosecutor General of the Republic of Uzbekistan (since 2019).
– 1963 – Garry Kasparov – international grandmaster from Azerbaijan (USSR).
– 1966 – Patricia Kaas – French pop singer and actress.
– 1970 – Saba Tümer – Turkish TV presenter and journalist.
– 1979 – Rustam Kasimjonov – chess player, International Grandmaster, former world champion.
– 1995 – Kaitlyn Osmond – Canadian figure skater, world (2018) and Olympic (2018) champion.
